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25 years ago, a jaw-dropping sight rolled through San Diego streets: a tank crushing everything in its path.
Stunned residents in a Kearny Mesa neigborhood described a 'rumbling, grinding noise' as the M60 tank carved a path of destruction.
10news photojournalist Rett Lawrence was at dinner with co-workers when he got the page.
"You've never seen so many guys run out to the door so fast," said Lawrence.
As a police helicopter flew overhead, the 60-ton tank ripped through cars, signs, traffic lights, hydrants and whatever was in its path. In one sequence, the tank destroyed a trailer and a van, before sheering through a mobile home like scissors.
https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/25th-anniversary-of-destructive-tank-rampage
LeftInTX
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(976 posts)and I remember it vividly.
captain queeg
(10,104 posts)I cant remember if that guy was a reservist or something or a hobbiest, but people with the right kind of license can own all sorts of military hardware.